OnTheFly: Search and Book Flights from Your Android or iPhone

OnTheFly is an airfare search engine app available for Android mobile phones and iOS devices. The app is optimized for mobile screens with large buttons and slider controls to help you find the best flight for you.

It's unlikely that you'll ever be in a situation where you'll need to buy a plane ticket from your phone, but stranger things have happened: miss a connecting flight and encounter a particularly dispassionate airline and you may find yourself sitting in an airport, completely out of luck until you can find another flight to book.

Enter OnTheFly, an airfare search engine app available for Android mobile phones and iOS devices. The app is optimized for mobile screens with large buttons and slider controls to help you find the best flight for you. Once you've found an affordable flight you'd like to book, the app helps you connect with the airline to buy your ticket.

OnTheFly doesn't book tickets for you: the app is purely airfare search, and once you find a flight you want to book, the app gives you contact information for the airline so you can call them and book the flight. The app supports domestic and international flights, so if you're perpetually busy you can use the app to causally browse for airfare and get an idea of how much a given trip will cost.

The app gives you a number of search parameters beyond the usual number of passengers and origin/destination airport selections. For example, OnTheFly allows you to tweak the number of preferred stops, the cabin class you'd like to fly, departure and arrival times, even seat availability and the number of passengers already booked for a specific flight if the airline supports it. The app also allows you to plan out an entire trip with multiple flights, then hands you off to the respective airlines to book your tickets.

The OnTheFly app provides your search results in both flight map and chart formats, so you can see where your flight is actually going and which airports you'll be connecting to as well as view multiple airlines and their fares for flights at different times and from different airports so you can select a travel plan that works for you.

OnTheFly supports Android mobile phones, iOS devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the folks behind the app plan to unveil a BlackBerry app next year. All versions of the app are completely free and available to download in their respective app stores. Back to top